Current Events > Nicolas Maduro promised to pay people to tweet for his re-election campaign

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-prize/maduros-tweeters-activists-cash-in-on-venezuela-election-win-idUSKCN1IQ1L6

CARACAS (Reuters) - Tweeted support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduros re-election? There could be a reward of 350,000 bolivars for you.

Scanned a few hundred state-issued fatherland cards to see if their holders voted? A 300,000 bolivar reward could be yours - just $0.35 but the equivalent of a weeks salary for most Venezuelans.

In a practice decried by Maduro opponents as buying support, the socialist government is giving cash prizes to Venezuelans who helped in Maduros re-election on Sunday, according to interviews with four recipients and messages seen by Reuters.

Scores of Venezuelan voters said on social media and in interviews that they were waiting for the prize that had been promised by Maduro before the election to those who voted and then scanned their fatherland card, which grants access to certain welfare programs.

In a campaign speech on May 15, Maduro said all fatherland card holders who voted would receive a fatherland prize, which is legal and constitutional.

Five days on, the hashtag WithoutAPrize has started circulating on social media. In Caracass poor neighborhoods, residents spread rumors about friends and relatives they heard had received up to 10 million bolivars for voting, while others said it was untrue.

Be careful about letting down the revolutions voters, said Freddie Velazquez, 54, directing the comment to Maduro, as he carted scarce gas canisters down a street in the hillside slum of El Valle.

Incentives for voters contributed to denunciation of Venezuelas election by Maduros opponents and the United States, European Union and other Latin American countries. Maduros main rival Henri Falcon called for a new election, complaining about the government placing some 13,000 stands offering prizes near polling stations.

Asked to comment on the prizes, Falcons Avanzada Progresista party said they were another example of the governments blackmail operation against voters.

We dont believe there is any justice in using public funds to show gratitude for the vote, the partys political secretary, Eduardo Semtei, said in an email.

Venezuelas Information Ministry did not respond to a request for comment on voting incentives...

And here's a picture of an anti-Maduro rally from about 2 years ago:

https://imgur.com/QmVPmbQ
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Pay with what? Their paper that is worth less than five rocks and two grains of sand?
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Socialists love this free shit!

haha fuck Maduro
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chill02 posted...

haha fuck Maduro

https://imgur.com/V5FDsmc
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silentwing26x posted...

Socialists love this free shit!

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bump
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bump.
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Someone needs to skull fuck Maduro till he dies using a Hot Dildo.
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.35 cents is a weeks salary there? How do you even stay alive more than a week?
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xBloodBrotherx posted...

.35 cents is a weeks salary there? How do you even stay alive more than a week?

Eating rats
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pikachupwnage posted...

xBloodBrotherx posted...

.35 cents is a weeks salary there? How do you even stay alive more than a week?

Eating rats

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-migrants/venezuelans-buy-bus-tickets-out-after-maduro-wins-re-election-idUSKCN1IN1HE

Venezuelans buy bus tickets out after Maduro wins re-election

CARACAS (Reuters) - Betsabeth Casique saved for eight months for bus tickets out of Venezuela for herself and her three children. At 1.4 million bolivars each, they are worth what she earns in a month working as a nurse.

It is less than two dollars at the black market exchange rate.

When socialist President Nicolas Maduro won re-election to a six-year term on Sunday in a vote the opposition and foreign governments called illegitimate, Casique decided to leave, first for the western city of San Cristobal and from there to Cucuta, Colombia.

That was the straw that broke the camels back, what pushed me to do it faster, Casique, 29, said while charging her cell phone outside the Aeroexpresos Ejecutivos terminal in Caracas, where she was planning to buy tickets for a bus leaving on Tuesday.

Ninety-nine people bought tickets on Monday morning for that trip, said Greberli Rojas, a passenger who displayed a handwritten wait-list she was keeping to avoid disputes between passengers trying to fit on the bus.

Rojas, a 29-year-old accountant who arrived from the town of Barlovento in Miranda state and bought her ticket early Monday, planned to spend the night at the station to avoid losing her spot.

Im prepared to sell coffee because us migrants have to be prepared to start from the bottom, said Rojas, who plans to settle in Lima, Peru.

It appeared the emigration crisis Venezuela had experienced in recent years as its economy collapsed would continue since Maduros government was unlikely to change policies that led to hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages and rising crime.

The United Nations has estimated that nearly 1 million Venezuelans the country left between 2015 and 2017.

Over the past weekend, migrants streamed across the border, skeptical that their votes would change anything in an election many thought would be rigged. Mainstream opposition called for a boycott and turnout was 46 percent compared with 80 percent in 2013s presidential election...
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pikachupwnage posted...

xBloodBrotherx posted...

.35 cents is a weeks salary there? How do you even stay alive more than a week?

Eating rats

Well god damn, how many rats do they have there? I mean entire families eating rats daily because they're only making .35 a week seems like the rat supply would be going fast.
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